To:HIS MOTHER

Published:First published in 1929 in the journalProletarskaya RevolyutsiyaNo. 11.

      Sent from Kuokkala to Mikhnevo, Serpukhov Uyezd, Moscow Gubernia.

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	  Collected Works,

      Progress Publishers,1977,

      Moscow,Volume 37,

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October 15, 1907

Motherdearest,

Itis a long time since I wrote to you. I believe the last
letter was the one I sent from my summerMon Repos.
We have now settled down to family life for the winter
in the old
place.[3]We hope the winter will not be as cold as
the last. But we shall arrange things better now and
“batten down the hatches”. I am very pleased with the premises
and with the way things have been fixed up. Manyasha
has been staying with us and is still here, but she intends
leaving today because winter is setting in; the first snow
fell today and it has turned cold.

Howare you getting along there? Will it be all right
in the country when the real cold sets in? Please convey my
best regards to Mitya. It was a pity I could not visit him
in the
autumn,[4]we could have had some magnificent
shooting, the weather was splendid all the time. When is
he getting his holiday, for how long, and where is he going?

Ihave had a couple of letters from Anyuta. She seems
to be pleased with her
trip.[1]The route is an interesting
one and it will probably be very fine down south now.

Herewe are living in a small company of good
friends.[2]We have books and work. We take walks along theseashore. I think Manyasha felt very well here; she worked a
lot, translating.

Nearlyall of us recently paid tribute to autumn—with
a dose of influenza for a couple of days. Now we are all
well or convalescent. Yelizaveta Vasilyevna also feels quite
well—only she sometimes gets too worried over the
housekeeping.

Iembrace and kiss you, my dear. I hope you will keep
well.

Yours,V. Ulyanov

[1]Lenin’ssister Anna was abroad at the time.—Ed.

[2]Atthat time A. A. Bogdanov, I. F. Dubrovinsky, N. A.
Rozhkov and G. D. Leiteisen lived at Kuokkala.—Ed.

[3]Afterthe Seventh International Congress in Stuttgart, in which
he took, part, Lenin stayed at Vaza Cottage at Kuokkala (now
Repino, Sestroretsk District, Leningrad), where he had formerly
lived when in hiding from the tsarist police.

[4]Atthat time Lenin’s brother Dmitry was employed as the village
doctor at Lipitino, Serpukhov Uyezd, Moscow Gubernia.